Manufacturing
Description
SIMUFACT
Optimization of Metal Manufacturing Processes
Simufact Forming: Simulation software designed for forming technology professionals.
The objective of Simufact Forming is to precisely meet the practical needs of users. Unlike other simulation environments that require specialized skills to create and program complex models, Simufact Forming simplifies this process. Users do not need to worry about the technical aspects of the forming process or the details of the simulation. Easy to learn and use, it allows practitioners to focus on optimizing their forming processes rather than on software complexity.
Features
- Cold / Hot Forming
- Sheet Metal Forming
- Incremental Forming
- Heat Treatment
- Packaging Process
Simufact Additive: Advanced simulation for additive manufacturing
Simufact Additive is cutting-edge simulation software designed to evaluate part geometry and processing strategies in additive manufacturing. It helps predict and reduce the risk of failure and dimensional non-conformities. Through geometric compensation, Simufact Additive adjusts parts to compensate for distortions, ensuring they meet tolerances during the printing process. Our solution helps the additive manufacturing industry overcome its obstacles and achieve successful prints from the first attempt.
Generative Design
Benefit from our highly automated geometric optimization solution to generate designs perfectly suited for additive manufacturing. Quickly create lightweight, production-ready designs, thereby reducing weight, manufacturing time, and material consumption.
Metal Additive Manufacturing
Simufact Additive supports Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), Metal Binder Jetting (MBJ), and Direct Energy Deposition (DED) processes. Our software is designed to predict and compensate for distortions, calculate residual stresses, and analyze temperature distribution throughout the printing process. It also covers heat treatment, cutting, hot isostatic pressing (HIP), and machining processes. For MBJ, it predicts changes during sintering and compensates for shrinkage. For DED, Simufact Additive analyzes coupled thermo-mechanical response and phase transformations during cooling, facilitating the industrialization of this advanced technology.
Polymer Additive Manufacturing
Simufact Additive offers a dedicated solution for plastics and composite materials, enabling users to overcome deformation-related issues. Through sensitivity analyses, the software evaluates the impact of process parameters on predicting deformations, residual stresses, temperature fields, crystallinity evolutions, layer adhesion, porosity, and much more. This helps optimize the productivity and quality of printed parts.
By combining precise modeling and advanced compensation tools, Simufact Additive helps manufacturers improve the performance, reliability, and efficiency of their additive manufacturing processes, while ensuring high-quality finished products.
Optimization of Part Joining Processes
Part joining is a fundamental aspect of manufacturing, and a reliable and stable process is essential for obtaining high-quality parts. Simulation plays a crucial role in optimizing this process, leading to better quality, reduced costs, and the maintenance of a robust assembly process.
Simufact Welding: Welding Assembly
Arc Welding
Optimize your welding processes with our advanced simulation tool. Simufact accurately replicates the fusion of metal parts, allowing you to evaluate weld bead formation, residual stresses, and distortions. This solution facilitates the adjustment of welding parameters, identification of defects, and ensures structural integrity before manufacturing. Reduce the need for physical testing, save time and costs while maintaining quality.
Spot Welding
Discover the power of spot welding simulation with our advanced software. Replicate localized heating and pressure, evaluate weld quality, and optimize processes. Refine parameters, identify defects, and improve spot weld design. Enhance the efficiency and quality of your manufacturing process with our reliable solutions.
Simufact Joining: Mechanical Assembly
Our advanced software accurately models and simulates various mechanical joining techniques such as riveting, bolting, and clinching. By virtually replicating the assembly process, our tool allows you to reduce effort, predict assembly characteristics, and evaluate the overall performance of your mechanical connections.
Thanks to powerful simulation tools, Simufact Joining helps you optimize your joining processes, reducing the risk of defects and improving overall production efficiency, while ensuring strong and reliable connections for high-quality parts.
FTI FormingSuite
Optimization and Simulation of Metal Manufacturing Processes: From Design to Production
Our advanced simulation solution enables rapid feasibility studies of sheet metal parts during the design phase, thereby improving the quality of designs for manufacturing (DFM). By streamlining the forming process, it eliminates rework and reduces technical modifications after design validation, while providing accurate estimates of blank shapes and springback for sheet metal components, thus optimizing manufacturing efficiency.
Our solution covers various key aspects of the manufacturing process, including:
- Cost Engineering: Define cost targets from the design phase through realistic stamping cost analysis. This optimizes material utilization and reduces costs associated with vehicle weight and tooling development.
- Process Planning / Technical Planning: Create detailed plans for quotation and design estimation from 3D CAD files, with realistic visualizations for each stamping operation.
- Virtual Process Validation: Perform virtual trials on stamping and assembly processes, identifying issues before tooling launch to reduce costs and improve quality.
Whether for forging (cold or hot), incremental forming, or heat treatment, our software offers advanced simulation, essential for controlling and optimizing these complex processes. Through precise modeling, you can predict defects, visualize deformation, and adjust parameters in real-time to ensure quality production.
Improve your manufacturing processes and reduce development costs while ensuring optimized and high-quality finished products.
Digimat Additive Manufacturing
Plastic Additive Manufacturing
Features
- Material Databases
- Replicate the SLS, FFF, or FDM printing process and predict as-printed warping and residual stresses
- Adjust material properties and process parameters by analyzing sensitivity to account for deviations and manufacturing defects
- Reduce trial and error and optimize productivity and part performance
- Simplified user interface with guided workflows and a dedicated FDM wizard for quick analysis setup